AN ANALYSIS OF GENRE IN STUDENTS’ REPORT TEXT OF ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF MA MATHOLI’UL HUDA BUGEL JEPARA IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2013/2014

In learning English, there are four skills; listening, speaking, reading, and writing. There are also some materials, like genre, grammar, vocabulary, and so on. In writing, genre is one of the materials. Genre is a kind of text or text types. It consists of social function, generic structure, and linguistic features. Generic structure is the major part of genre. The function of generic structure is to tell the reader how the text is made. There are some kinds of genre; narrative, descriptive, report, and so on. Report text is about result observation or analysis and also describes natural process, social or environment. Process type is part of linguistic features. Processes are realized by verbs. The objective of this research are (1) to describe the generic structure in students’ report text of science 2 class eleventh grade students of MA Matholi’ul Huda Bugel Jepara in academic year 2013/2014, and (2) to find out the process type found in students’ report text of science 2 class eleventh grade students of MA Matholi’ul Huda Bugel Jepara in academic year 2013/2014. Descriptive qualitative method has been utilized to reach the objectives of this research. The data of this research is generic structure and process type. Meanwhile, the data source of this research is the students’ report text of science 2 class eleventh grade students of MA Matholi’ul Huda Bugel Jepara in academic year 2013/2014. The result of this research showed that there are 25 students’ report texts that really report texts which are 22 students’ report texts that have incorrect generic structure and there have 3 students’ report texts that are correct generic structure. Then the result of analyzing process type of 25 students’ report texts that there are 82 clauses for material process, 18 clauses for mental process, 36 clauses for behavioral process, none for verbal process, 158 clauses for relational process, 14 clauses for existential process, and none for meteorological process. Therefore, the writer suggests that the students should study more about the generic structure of report text, so they can differentiate between general classification and description. Besides that, the students should know what the process type that often used in report text is.